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Ross Ulbricht Trial Day 10 Update: Murder For Hire & Character Witnesses

• thelibertybeat.com

The government revealed explicit chat logs depicting Dread Pirate Roberts involved in an extortion-murder-for-hire scheme.  Silk Road user FriendlyChemist messaged DPR, saying user Lucydrops had stolen from him. FriendlyChemist said he would expose the names of thousands of Silk Road customers if DPR didn't pay him $500,000.

A third user, "redandwhite", claiming to be part of a Western Canadian gang, later revealed to be the Hells Angels, also contacted DPR claiming FriendlyChemist was a drug distributor they worked with and that he had ripped them off as well. The logs show DPR and "redandwhite" negotiating hit contracts in plain English.

"I would like to put a bounty on his (FriendlyChemist) head if it's not too much trouble for you," DPR wrote to "redandwhite"


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